Next Week, Watch Local Architecture Students Map Your Tacos

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Charting the course of your taco's geographical origins.

​A collaborative study by students in the California College of the Arts Architecture Program, REBAR (designers of the Slow Food Nation Civic Center Victory Garden), and landscape architect David Fletcher may have found a better after-effect of taco consumption than indigestion:

Our premise was that a seemingly simple, familiar food like the taco truck taco could provide visceral insight into the connections between the systems we were exploring. By thoroughly learning the process of formation and lifecycle what it takes to make a taco, we would be better able to propose and design a speculative model of a holistic and sustainable urban future. What resulted was a richly complex network of systems, flows and ecologies that we call the global Tacoshed.

Next week, the group will present its findings to the public alongside talks from Jessica Diaz of Gracias Madre and representatives from the Los Angeles-based fish taco farm Materials & Applications. Mark Andrew Gravel of the Spotted Rooster bean project will serve black bean tacos.

Event details:
Tacoshed
Date: Thurs., Feb. 25, 7 p.m.
Location: The Studio for Urban Projects, 3579 17th St. (at Dolores)
Cost: Free